Reuters Nabj Fellowship (Trainee)

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com.

The Reuters NABJ Fellowship Program offers nine months of hands-on, real world experience with competitive in a Reuters US bureau. This fellowship, open to members of the National Association of Black Journalists, is part of the Reuters Editorial Trainee Program, during which participants will gain a deep grounding in financial and/or general news reporting, work on fast-paced news stories and develop skills in enterprise journalism.

The program seeks rising reporters, recent graduates or business professionals who can demonstrate a clear commitment to a career in journalism and an ability to generate story ideas relevant for a Reuters' audience. We are seeking journalists capable of telling stories in a multimedia context, using text, video and/or graphics.

Participants will start with intensive training and then work on reporting teams, mentored by some of our finest journalists. They will hit the ground running delivering news stories to exacting Thomson Reuters standards. This program has enabled past participants to move into fully fledged assignments with Reuters in locations around the world.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers.

As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 45,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit thomsonreuters.com/careers.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Locations

New York-New York-United States of America;Washington-District of Columbia-United States of America

Req #: JREQ109048

Locations: New York-New York-United States of America|Washington-District of Columbia-United States of America

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Locations: New York-New York-United States of America
Job Function: News & Editorial
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